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#1

“You were a stray cat, strutting so free and full of pride. But I could see your open wound. And without really thinking I just chalked it up to another cool thing about you. I never realized how much you hurt.”
― Ai Yazawa

tags: hurt, nana, wound

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#2

“People can't be just tied together. They have to connect. Otherwise, they'll find themselves bound hand and foot.”
― Ai Yazawa

tags: connection, love, nana

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#3

“The flow of time cleanses the past and heals the wounds in people's hearts. But there are wounds we cant speak of.”
― Ai Yazawa

tags: nana

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#4

“Nana acts like a stray cat,
wild, free, and proud....
...But inside her heart, she houses a wound.
Dense as I am, i thought that.
This trait of hers was a part of her charm as well.
..but she never realized how much pain it brought her....
-Nana Komatsu”
― Ai Yazawa

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#5

“Nana Oosaki, about Shin: I wonder if he's really eighteen. He looks sixteen. I'm sure he lied about his age...
Nana Komatsu: See! You were complaining but you still read the application!
Shin: The studio's free! Great! <3
Nana Komatsu, thinking: So cute!
Nana Oosaki: I hope he's not in primary school...children today are advanced.”
― Ai Yazawa

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#6

“For my 20th birthday in March, I'll buy myself a present for doing my best. A one way ticket to Tokyo. All I need is my guitar and a pack of cigarettes.”
― Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 1

19 likes

#7

“Being alone and being lonely are two different things.”
― Ai Yazawa

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#8

“The longer we live, the more weight we carry in our hearts.”
― Ai Yazawa

tags: life, nana

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#9

“Nana... How come being happy and making your dreams come true are two different things? Even now, I still don't know why...”
― Ai Yazawa

tags: dreams, happy, nana

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#10

“Sometimes isn’t it better to have some time and space to ourselves? We will have new perception of things.”
― Ai Yazawa

tags: nana

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#11

“Right now I am working to polish the shards of my dreams.”
― Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 1

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#12

“As expected life isn't that sweet at all.
When I came to Tokyo I thought I could achieve anything with my own two hands.
It's not like that. To get something in these hands, I have to fight a horrible fight. But... there's not much time to grab the things you want with your hands.
Why is that?
And more importantly what is that I want?”
― Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 2

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#13

“I might cry tomorrow, but I may be smiling the day after. That's enough. That's the way life is. If I don't lose hope - tomorrow will come.Tomorrow will come if we don't lose hope... I learned that from Nana.But rainy days still make my cheeks wet with tears, even now. It was pouring, on that rainy day.”
― Ai Yazawa

tags: nana, tomorrow

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#14

“You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.”
― Andy Warhol

tags: creativity, individuality, originality, warhol

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#15

“Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level”
― Gustave Flaubert, November

tags: identity, individuality, mediocrity, soul

236 likes

#16

“To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.”
― C.G. Jung

tags: consciousness, individuality, introspection, psychology

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#17

“Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.”
― Aesop

tags: independent-thought, individuality, morals, self-expression, values

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#18

“Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: confomity, courage, individuality, nonconformity, self-freedom, truth-to-self

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#19

“The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.”
― Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions

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#20

“There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: beautiful, duckling, endure, gift, god, people, purpose, reason, strength, swan, ugly-duckling

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#21

“From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were - I have not seen
As others saw - I could not bring
My passions from a common spring -”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Alone

tags: individuality, loneliness, uniqueness

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#22

“I used to think that finding the right one was about the man having a list of certain qualities. If he has them, we'd be compatible and happy. Sort of a checkmark system that was a complete failure. But I found out that a healthy relationship isn't so much about sense of humor or intelligence or attractive. It's about avoiding partners with harmful traits and personality types. And then it's about being with a good person. A good person on his own, and a good person with you. Where the space between you feels uncomplicated and happy. A good relationship is where things just work. They work because, whatever the list of qualities, whatever the reason, you happen to be really, really good together.”
― Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

tags: attractive, checkmark, compatible, good, happy, harmful, healthy, intelligence, list, partners, personality, qualities, reason, relationship, sense-of-humor

525 likes

#23

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
― J. Krishnamurti

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#24

“Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: causality, error, intelligence, theories

438 likes

#25

“Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.”
― Kevin Smith

tags: controversy, diversity, intelligence

216 likes

#26

“These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.”
― Abigail Adams

tags: carpe-diem, challenge, genius, heroism, intelligence, trial, trying-times

191 likes

#27

“Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.”
― Wei Hui

520 likes

#28

“The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: intelligence, stupidity

823 likes

#29

“Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.”
― Horace Mann

tags: conflict, growth, intelligence, knowledge, opinion

270 likes

#30

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

tags: intelligence

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